Images » Photographs
Description
Image of a pow-wow with Chief Beardy (plumes on hat) and Chief Okamesis [after] the Northwest Resistance. A group of non-Aboriginal men stand behind the Chiefs.
Prairie Families: Cree-Métis-Saulteux Materialities as Indigenous Feminist Materialist Record of Kinship-Based Selfhood
Theses
Author/Creator
Lindsay Nixon
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2018.
Preface: [BC Studies, No. 89, 1991]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Doreen Jensen
Cheryl Brooks
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 8-12
Description
Introduces special issue written, compiled and edited by Aboriginal peoples from British Columbia.
Preface to Indian Country: Geography and Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Imre Sutton
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, pp. 3-35
Description
Comments on the somewhat abstract nature and definition of the term "Indian Country", including the political geographical impact the term has.
Preparing Officers Mess, N.W. Rebellion, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of men setting up an Officers' Mess at unknown location during the Northwest Resistance. Group of men prepare food in pots over a fire at left, and men in background moving barrels and pots.
Pretend Indian Exegesis: The Pretend Indian Uncanny Valley Hypothesis in Literature and Beyond
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Trevino Brings Plenty
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 142-152
Description
A poetic essay in which the author examines questions and politics of identity, and the reasons a person might want (falsely) claim Indigenous heritage.
Prevalence of Tuberculosis Infection Among Children in a Native Indian Population of Northwestern Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Soleman A. Mirdad
Description
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 1991.
Principles Respecting the Government of Canada's Relationship with Indigenous Peoples
E-Books
Author/Creator
Department of Justice Canada
A Profile of Aboriginal Youth in a Community Drug Program
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara M. Gfellner
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 1991, pp. 25-48
Description
Three studies looking at social and behavioural characteristics of youth within an urban centre.
Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 1-17
Description
Article examines the Indian Policy of the United States government; argues that the policies hold at their core an evolutionary perspective on social development which places the United States government in a paternalist role, guiding Indigenous people through the evolution of their race.
Promising Child Welfare Practices for Inuit Children, Youth and Families
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre?]
Description
Discusses practices developed by the Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre and the Ottawa Children's Aid Society. They fall into the categories of: recognition of the uniqueness of the Inuit community; institutional commitment and leadership; partnerships with local service providers, cultural competency; hiring Inuit staff; clinical practices; admission-prevention services; and practices for children in care.
Protest in Prince Albert in Support of Oka Mohawks
Images » Photographs
Description
Four slides of a man and children at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Protest in Prince Albert in Support of Oka Mohawks (3)
Images » Photographs
Description
Four slides of a two women and a child with an upside down Canadian flag at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Protest in Prince Albert in Support of Oka Mohawks (4)
Images » Photographs
Description
A slide of two boys holding placards reading "Is Canada a Democracy?" and "Mulroney Balogna Blatant Racism" at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Protest in Prince Albert in Support of Oka Mohawks (5)
Images » Photographs
Description
A slide of male and female protestors, one with a drum, at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Curriculum Developers
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Asma-na-hi Antoine
Rachel Mason
Roberta Mason
Sophia Palahicky
Carmen Rodriguez de France
Description
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Front-line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors.
Teachers and Instructors.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Foundations
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kory Wilson
Description
Guide discusses Indigenous-Canadian relationships from contact to the present, historical and contemporary context, and the diversity of Indigenous peoples.
Related material for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Curriculum Developers.
Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Pulling Together: A Guide for Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian Cull
Robert L. A. Hancock
Stephanie McKeown
Michelle Pidgeon
Adrienne Vedan
Description
Related material: Foundations. Guides for: Leaders and Administrators.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Leaders and Administrators
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sybil Harrison
Janice Simcoe
Dawn Smith
Jennifer Stein
Description
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Curriculum Developers.
Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors.
Teachers and Instructors.
Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions: Teachers and Instructors
Alternate Title
Professional Learning Series
[BCcampus Indigenization Project]
[Indigenization] Professional Learning Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce Allan
Amy Perreault
John Chenoweth
Dianne Biin
Sharon Hobenshield
Todd Ormiston
Shirley Anne Hardman
Louise Lacerte ... [et al.]
Description
Explores topics such as locating self and practice, Indigenous worldviews and pedagogies, ethical approach and relational protocols, colonization framework in Canada, and building an Indigenous practice.
Related material:
Foundations.
Guides for:
Leaders and Administrators.
Curr
Pursuing Reconciliation: The Case for an Off-Reserve Urban Agenda
Alternate Title
Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute) ; no. 526
Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute). Education, Skills and Labour Market
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Richards
Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute)
Pursuing Well-being: Lessons from the First Nations Poverty Action Research Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Poverty Action Research Project
Description
Project involved collaboration with five First Nation communities: Sipekne’katik First Nation, Opitciwan First Nation, Eabametoong First Nation, Misipawistik Cree Nation, and T'it'q'et. Communities emphasized that they did not want to merely focus on poverty, but take a holistic approach which would build capacity and strengthen the entire community. Concludes with six recommendations for policy and program change.
Qaujimanira: Inuit Art as Autoethnography
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Krista Ulujuk Zawadski
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 151-156
Description
In this conference extract the author examines the history of Inuit art noting the ongoing self-representation in the work and argues that this allows for a high level of agency in Inuit art.
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Employment, Income and Food Insecurity
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Sociodemographic and Socioeconomic Conditions
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Émilie Grantham]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Housing
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Physical and Social Environment
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Matthieu Gill-Bougie]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Indian Residential Schools and Youth Protection Services
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Health Status and Wellness
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Mathieu-Olivier Côté]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Individual Wellness, Mental Health and Elder Abuse
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Health Status and Wellness
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Mathieu-Olivier Côté]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Maternal and Child Health
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Health Status and Wellness
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Matthieu Gill-Bougie]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Mobility and Community Wellness
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Physical and Social Environment
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Matthieu Gill-Bougie]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Sexual Behaviours and Prevention
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Health Status and Wellness
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey: Sexual Behaviors and Prevention
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Matthieu Gill-Bougie]
The Queen's People: Ethnography or Appropriation?
Alternate Title
Review Essays: The Queen's People: Ethnography or Appropriation?
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Wendy Wickwire
Michael M'Gonigle
Native Studies Review , vol. 7, no. 2, 1991, pp. 97-113
Description
Book review of: The Queen's People, A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canadaby Peter Carstens.
Queer Desires and Destroyer Identities in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Champlin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, Summer, 2018, pp. 34-55
Description
Article seeks to disrupt the critical discussion surrounding Silko’s novel and the narratives it contains, asserting that the text demonstrates that mainstream culture forces people with divergent traits to choose between acceptance of their own difference and membership in the majority culture.
Race, Space, and Prostitution: The Making of Settler Colonial Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Bourgeois
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 30, no. 3, 2018, pp. 371-397
Description
Argues that prostitution has played a fundamental role in securing the necessary domination over Indigenous peoples and land in the making of the Canadian nation-state. Focuses on four examples: early settlement in British Columbia; the Indian Act; the Pass System; and Vancouver's missing women.
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Illicit Drug Use among American High School Seniors, 1976-89
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jerald G. Bachman
John M. Wallace
Patrick M. O'Malley
Lloyd D. Johnston
Candace L. Kurth
Harold W. Neighbors
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 81, no. 3, March 1991, pp. 372-377
Description
Study showed lower levels of drug use by most non-White youth, especially Asian Americans and Black Americans, and finds that subgroup differences are felt to be not primarily attributable to family compostion, parents' education, region, or urban-rural distinctions.
Raising a Child with Early Childhood Dis-ability Supports Shakonehyra:ra's ne shakoyen'okon:'a
Alternate Title
Raising a Child with Early Childhood Disability Supports
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Ineese-Nash
Yvonne Bomberry
Kathryn Underwood
Arlene Hache
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, Winter, 2018, pp. 1-14
Description
Presents findings from Indigenous participants in the Early Childhood Service System Project.
'Ramsay's Regime': The Australian Museum and the Procurement of Aboriginal Bodies, c.1874-1900.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Turnbull
Aboriginal History, vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, pp. 108-121
Description
Comments on the museum supporting the collection and trade of Aboriginal remains.
“Rather Unusual Stuff”: Nathan Jackson's Early Advent of a Tlingit Modern
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher T. Green
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 300-326
Description
Article considers the early work of Nathan Jackson and discusses the ways that his paintings, prints, and textile works blend traditional Tlingit designs, patterns, and colour schemes with modernist elements.
"Re-Creation Stories": Re-Presencing, Re-Embodiment, and Repatriation Practices in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "How to Steal a Canoe"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda Vellino
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 129-152
Description
Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.
Re-peopling in a Settler-Colonial Context: The Intersection of Indigenous Laws of Adoption with Canadian Immigration Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amar Bhatia
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 343-353
Description
Authors argues that under systems of treaty relations and Aboriginal law Indigenous peoples have the authority to regulate the way in which they are re-peopled, and that Canadian laws and policies have worked to obscure this authority.
Reading between the Crimes: Online Media’s Representation
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Interaction
with the Criminal Justice System in Post-Apology Australia
Theses
Author/Creator
Jonathan Cannon
Description
Criminal Justice Thesis (M.A.)--Edith Cowan University, 2018.
Reciprocal Inuit and Western Research Training: Facilitating Research Capacity and Community Agency in Arctic Research Partnerships
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Priscilla Ferrazzi
Peter Christie
Djenana Jalovcic
Shirley Tagalik
Alanna Grogan
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 77, 2018, p. article no. 1425581
Description
Discusses two three-day cross-cultural research training workshops held in the Nunavut communities of Arviat and Iqaluit.
Reciprocity and Nation Building in Native Women's Doctoral Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather J. Shotton
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall, 2018, pp. 488-507
Description
Author examines the motivators for Indigenous students to engage in postgraduate studies; finds that for Indigenous students reciprocity plays a large role in in their decision, that these students feel that higher education is a means by which they can contribute to the betterment of their communities.
Reclaiming Spaces Between: Coast Salish Two Spirit Identities and Experiences
Theses
Author/Creator
Corrina Sparrow
Description
Social Work Thesis (MSW)--University of Victoria, 2018.
Reconciliation and Canada’s Overdose Crisis: Responding to the Needs of Indigenous Peoples
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Lavalley
Shelda Kastor
Jenna Valleriani
Ryan McNeil
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 50, December 17, 2018, pp. E1466-E1467
Description
Authors note that the current drug overdose crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous people as a result of a legacy of colonialism, racism and intergenerational trauma; argue that reconciliation with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples must include dismantling structural conditions which produce drug-related harms, and that current harm-reduction models must integrate Indigenous cultural values.
Reconciliation: Facilitating Ethical Space between Indigenous Women and Girls of a Drum Circle and White, Settler Men of a Police Chorus
Theses
Author/Creator
Kelly I. Laurila
Description
Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfred Laurier University, 2018.
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
Alternate Title
Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making
Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation
“A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Daniel Heidt
Marcel Martel
Colin M. Coates
Martin Pâquet
... [et al.]
Description
See:
Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.
“Recruited to Teach the Indians”: An African American Genealogy of Navajo Nation Boarding Schools
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Khalil Anthony Johnson Jr.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 154-176
Description
An examination of the colonial schooling of African American and Indigenous students in America.
Red Blood Cell Folate Levels in Canadian Inuit Women of Childbearing Years: Influence of Food Security, Body Mass Index, Smoking, Education, and Vitamin Use
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kait Duncan
Anders C. Erickson
Grace M. Egeland
Hope Weiler
Laura T. Arbour
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 5-6, December 2018, pp. 684-691
Description
Used red blood cell folate (RBCF) levels in sample of 249 non-pregnant women from the Inuit Health Survey, 2007-2008; results suggest a need for initiatives which will improve food security, culturally relevant education on folate-rich traditional foods, access to vitamin supplements, and smoking cessation.
The REDress Project: Casting an Indigenous Feminist Worldview on Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Programs in Ontario’s Universities (Dispatch)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Brulé
Studies in Social Justice, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018, pp. 337-344
Description
A discussion on the installation of the REDress project at York University during the 2017/2018 school year to challenge colonial representations of missing and murdered Indigenous females.
Reducing the Cost of Inequality
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trevor Hancock
CMAJ, vol. 190, no. 3, January 22, 2018, p. e92
Description
Briefly discusses the ethical and pragmatic reasons for reducing the burden of disease.